Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for April

The Rain

The rain is raining all around, 
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here, 
And on the ships at sea.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 10	The Puppets Recognize Their Brother Pinocchio from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Three Men of Gotham from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Jenny Has a Good Word for Some Sparrows from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	What the Geese Talked Of from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum	The Tragedy of Nero from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	Betsy Goes to School (Part 2 of 2) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	Saint Patrick (Part 1 of 2) from Our Island Saints by Amy Steedman
	King Harald's Wedding from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall	A Bluebird's Song (Part 3 of 3) from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Kid and the Wolf from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Carry Some Things Ashore from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Atalanta and Hippomenes from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price	Unc' Billy Possum Tells Jimmy Skunk a Secret from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess	The Pirate Story from The Sandman: His Ship Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	The Sea Princess, Anonymous	Violets by Dinah Maria Mulock		Little Billee by William Makepeace Thackeray	Up and Down by Walter de la Mare	March by Celia Thaxter	The Lamb by William Blake

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

Belling the Cat

The mice once called a meeting to decide on a plan to free themselves of their enemy, the Cat. At least they wished to find some way of knowing when she was coming, so they might have time to run away. Indeed, something had to be done, for they lived in such constant fear of her claws that they hardly dared stir from their dens by night or day.

Many plans were discussed, but none of them was thought good enough. At last a very young Mouse got up and said:

"I have a plan that seems very simple, but I know it will be successful. All we have to do is to hang a bell about the Cat's neck. When we hear the bell ringing we will know immediately that our enemy is coming."

All the Mice were much surprised that they had not thought of such a plan before. But in the midst of the rejoicing over their good fortune, an old Mouse arose and said:

"I will say that the plan of the young Mouse is very good. But let me ask one question Who will bell the Cat?"

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.